Crime briefs

ROYAL OAK — Police are still looking for a woman involved in an armed robbery at the CVS drug store at 209 East 12 Mile Road.

The woman distracted a female cashier March 17 while suspect Anton Djonaj went behind the counter and stole several cartons of cigarettes, police said. When the cashier confronted Djonaj he told her he had a gun and fled the store with the unknown woman, police said.

The suspects fled in a Ford Taurus and police said it matched the description of a getaway vehicle in a nearby community where a witness saw the license plate number. Troy police checked the house from the address on the car registration and found Djonaj and the Taurus car there, police said.

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Djonaj, 26, of Troy is charged in Royal Oak 44th District Court with armed robbery and jailed on $50,000 bond. His accomplice is still at large, police said.

She is described as black, in her 20s, about 5-foot-5, 140 pounds with a dark complexion and shoulder-length hair. At the time of the robbery she was wearing a black jacket with a fur-trimmed hood, blue jeans, red boots and a long red shirt.

Anyone with information is asked to call Royal Oak Police at 248-246-3500 and refer to report #13-7333.

Cash taken in burglaries

ROYAL OAK — Cash and other items were stolen in two recent burglaries.

Someone entered a house in the 300 block of West Lincoln and stole cash, a Samsung Galaxy Tablet and an iPod on March 17. Two days before, someone stole cash and two empty wrist-watch boxes from a house in the 1800 block of Guthrie.

Homeland Security worker’s purse stolen

ROYAL OAK — A woman who works with Homeland Security reported someone stole her purse while she was at BD’s Mongolian Barbecue at 430 S. Main Street.

The woman called police March 17 and told them her purse contained her Homeland Security ID, badge, cash and two iPhones.

Woman arrested for crack cocaine

FERNDALE — A Roseville woman, 34, was arrested for possessing four rocks of crack cocaine after police said they found the drugs under the passenger seat she was sitting in during a traffic stop.

Police said they stopped a Jeep near Eight Mile and Woodward on Tuesday for a traffic violation. The driver, a Roseville man, 33, was arrested for having four suspensions on his driver’s license.

The woman was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant for a misdemeanor. Police impounded the man’s Jeep.

Larceny at high school

FERNDALE — A student at Ferndale High School reported someone stole items from his locker in the football locker room.

Police said it appeared the lock was broken and the student, 14, was missing his blue jeans, a hat and $30 in cash. The theft was reported Tuesday.

Drunken man ordered police to give him a ride

FERNDALE — A drunken man showed up at the 7-Eleven on the corner of Nine Mile and Hilton screamed for someone to call police because he had been walking in the cold for two hours and could no longer see.

Police arrived and said the man refused to answer any questions. Police took him outside and offered to call a cab for him, but the man walked to a patrol and got in the back seat.

“He told the officers he was not going to take the cab they offered and they were going to drive him,” Ferndale Police Sgt. Patrick Jones said.

The man got out of the patrol and ignored police orders not to re-enter the store. He was arrested. During the booking process the man raised a middle finger when police took his mug shot photo.

He was charged with a misdemeanor count of being disorderly.

Cellphone thefts

ROYAL OAK — A teenage boy stole two iPhones from a display rack at the AT&T store, 30254 Woodward.

The theft happened March 15 and employees described the teen as black, 5-foot-7, and wearing a gray Nike sweat suit and orange Air-Max 95 athletic shoes. The teen fled from the store and drove off in a blue Chevy Impala.

Wallets stolen

ROYAL OAK — Two men told police someone stole their wallets from the locker room at the Lindell Ice Arena, 1403 Lexington, on Tuesday.

Vandals use spray paint

ROYAL OAK — Police took reports of vandals spray painting graffiti at four different locations over two days.

The graffiti was sprayed on a wall at the Lafayette parking structure, a business in the 200 block of West Fifth Street, a business in the 500 block of South Washington, and a business in the 300 block of South Main Street.

The vandals struck on March 15 and 16, police said.

Drunken assailant at bar had gun

ROYAL OAK — Police arrested a drunken man legally carrying a concealed handgun after they say they saw him assault an employee Monday at O’Toole’s Bar, 205 W. Fifth St.

Police discovered the gun after they arrested the man for assault. The man also faces a charge of possessing a firearm while intoxicated.

Man smashes woman’s car window at stop light

ROYAL OAK — A man walked up to a woman’s car and smashed the passenger-side window with a single punch while she was stopped at a light at 11 Mile Road and Main Street.

The man ran off and the woman called police. The man is described as white, thin, in his 20s, 5-foot-10 and was wearing a yellow jacket and black jogging pants.

Men charged with burglarizing cellphone repair store

TROY — Two Detroit men are charged with burglarizing a cellphone repair store after police said they caught the pair with more than 100 stolen iPhones.

MADISON HEIGHTS — Someone smashed out windows on two vehicles parked next to each other at the Venetian Club, 29310 John R, and stole a purse from one of them.

The purse belonged to a Royal Oak woman, 29, and was stolen from inside a 20134 Chevy Traverse after someone broke out the rear window. Nothing was stolen from the other vehicle, a 2012 Ford Escape, which belongs to a Ferndale woman, 46.